Had similar problems here in North Bedfordshire. Normally radio 2 is strong on 88.6 but today it did not even selct that frequency in the car and was landing on 89.7 which is from Tacolneston, some 80 miles away! Maybe Bow Brickhill is off the air??

Switch off the news and travel broadcasts. They're a waste of space anyway.

Travel News is often very useful just need to get the muppets at the local radio stations to identify themselves clearly and not leave the travel news flag set for ages before or after the travel news bulletin.

Never found News any use but perhaps because we have so many stations in the UK. Perhaps if there were only two networks it would let you listen to a music one and get the news bulletins off the other one.